Excessive Heat Watches in New Jersey
60 excessive heat watches since 1986. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of excessive heat watches reaches back to 2005.
Excessive Heat Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Excessive Heat Watches
- 60
- Busiest year
- 20129 excessive heat watches
- Average year
- 4over 17 years on file
Over time
By year
Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.
By month of the year
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Burlington County46
- Camden County42
- Gloucester County42
- Mercer County42
- Middlesex County15
- Somerset County15
- Hunterdon County14
- Morris County14
- Monmouth County13
- Ocean County13
- Warren County12
- Atlantic County11
- Cumberland County11
- Salem County11
- Cape May County10
- Hudson County10
- Passaic County10
- Sussex County8
- Bergen County8
- Essex County8
- Union County8
Nearby
Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.